just one state of many with new gun laws that are being considered right now. a debate on stricter gun control is actually happening on a national level, and the united states, an estimated 70 million americans own guns, that's one out of three of us. last year, or background checks were conducted in any other year in history. background checks in general have surged 54% since the election of president obama president obama and that in part inspired our next guest. with all of the noise on gun control and gun rights, this man decided to go to what he calls the gun guy, a group that he himself belongs to and he joins us now on the set. he is the author of gun guys, road trip. okay so who are they? >> i was surprised. a lot of jews, which surprised me, i'm a jewish liberal democrat and i couldn't believe how many i met. a lot of liberals. and a lot of conservatives but women, african-american, old fat white guys come as they call themselves,. jenna: what surprises you about that? >> the big surprise was 15,000 miles. i always knew how attractive guns were to shoo